Art of arranging music



C. F. FREDRIKSON.

ART OF ARRANGING MUSIC.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11. 1919.

1,370,202. I Patented Mar. 1, 1921.

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ART or VARRANGIN'VG MUSIC.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL F. FREnRIKsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago,in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the 'Art of Arranging Music, of which the following isa specification.

The present invention relates to the art of become highly desirable that meansbe provided Wherebya sequence of musical selections of selected st les and selected lengths, variable at the'will of the operator,may be played. Thus, in coordinating such instruments with motion pictures, the selections played to accompany thesvarious scenes or quence of these selections and their lengths will necessarily vary to accompany each picture. It has been'found that the styles of the musical selections required may be standardized and fall into a relatively small number of groups, such as the march, the lyric waltz, fast dance music, slow dance music, popular song transcriptions, transcriptions of dramatic music and funeral music,

In adapting perforated sheet actuated automatic instruments to such. coordinated operation a number of expedients have hitherto been proposed. Thus it has been suggested that special rolls be cut to accompany each icture,contam1ng the proper styles of selections of the proper duration in Specification of Letters Patent.

strument in the usual manner.

Patented Mar. 1, 1921.

7 Application filed April 17, 1919'. Serial No. 290,664.

a sequence followin the chan 'es in action and emotion in the picture; It as also been proposed that multiple sheet operating mechanism be utilized, whereby a plurality of perforated sheets producing different styles ofmusic may be severally caused to actuate the mech'anism'o'f the instrument by an operatorcontrolling the same. Such methods as have been proposed, however,

are found to involve a cons derable expense in the manufacture of special rolls or in maintaining a specialoperator for the instrument, or are unadaptable to the special requirements of an individual operatoror type of audience.

I In accordance with the present invention it has now beenfound that these various difiiculties inutilizing sheet-operated musical instruments to accompany motion'pictures may be obviated by providing sheet sections capable of producing various styles of music in various lengths and capable of being separably united in any desired sequence to produce a continuous sheet forming a suitable accompaniment for any specifiedpicture. A library of sheet sections may be provided containing selections classified as to style of music and length of selection, and the operator selects at will-therefrom selections of any desired style and length best adapted for the depicted action or emotion which it is to accompany. The selections in such a library may be supplemented, renewed or discarded at will and may be combined to provide a widely variable sequence of musical selections adaptable to accompany any picture and to the caprices "of the audience. 1

The selected sheet sections are then separably united in the proper sequence, for exdrawings, to form a continuous sheet which is wound upon a roll and placed in the in- I quired.

In the accompanying drawings are illustrated means whereby the several sheet sections may be separably united in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 1 shows in plan view the contiguous interlocked ends of two sheet sections.

Fig. 2 shows the front end of a section, disassembled, and Fig. 3 shows the end of a section disassembled.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the numerals 5 and 6 designate successive sections of perforated sheets adapted for use in an automatic instrument, preferably of the electrical type. The front end of each section is sharply cut away as shown in Fig. 2, to form a narrow neck T, from which the tongues 8, 8 extend laterally in each direction. The rear end of each section is similarly cut away to form a neck 9, from which the tongues 10, 10 extend laterally in each direction. The tongues 8, 8 at the front ends of the sheet sections are slightly longer than the tongues l0, 10 of the rear ends of the sheet sections, for the purpose hereinafter set forth. The front ends of each section are likewise provided with slots 11, 11, spaced apart the width of the neck 9 formed on the rear end of each section, and the rear ends of the sections are provided with slots 12, 12, spaced apart the width of the necks 7 formed on the front ends of the sections. Additional slots l3, 13 are provided laterally of the slots 12, 12. The ends of the sheets are preferably imperforate.

In assembling the sheet sections the front end 6 of a section is placed over the rear end 5 of the preceding section, as indicated in Fig. 1. (The arrow indicates the direction of motion of the assembled sheet as it travels over the tracker-board of the instrument.) The tongues 10, 10 on the rear end of the first sheet are passed through the slots 11, 11 to the upper side of the sheet. The tongues 8. S on the forward end of the following sheet are passed downwardly through slots 12, 12. These tongues 8, 8 are formed longer than the tongues 10, 10 in order that they may be passed through slots 13, 13 to the upper side of the sheetto prevent their being torn or frayed by the tracker-board in passage thereover. The relative positions of the slots and tongues is such that on assembling them as shown in Fig. l, the assembled sheets are locked -.;gainst relative movement laterally or long tudinally. Each sheet section is formed with a forward end as illustrated by Fig.

and a rear end as illustrated by Fig. 3.

The selected sheet sections are interlocked in the above described manner to form a continuous sheet which is wound upon a roll and used in the instrument as a unitary sheet to accompany a picture. It is readily a iiparent that such assembled sheets maybe used in other connections, such as to ac company plays, pantomimcs, etc presented by living actors.

Although I have described my invention in connection with certain specific details of the means involved therein, it is clearly itfipitl'llt that it not limited to such det ils except in so far as such limitations are seaforth in the accompanying claims.

1 claim:

l. The method of arranging the musical score of automatic instrument-s operated b perforated sheets to accompany predetermined scenic representations and to harmonize with the subject matter thereof, which consists in selecting sections of compositions to form a complete score of appropriate style and length, and consecutively uniting the same in proper sequence. to form a unitary sheet.

2. The method of arranging the musical score of automatic instri zments operated by perforated sheets to accompany predeterniined scenic representations and to harmonize with the subject matter thereof. which consists in selecting sections of comgositions to form a complete score of appropriate style and length, and separably and consecutively uniting the same in proper sequence to form a unitary sheet.

CARL F. FREDRIKSON. 

